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Episode: FROM THE VAULT: Steve Allen & Jack Paar
Description: Send us Fan MailI kid you not: there were Tonight Show hosts way before Jimmy Fallon was even born. If you thought late night started with Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, think again. When the Tonight Show premiered nationally on NBC in 1954, Steve Allen was the man behind the desk. I interviewed him 30 years ago, in 1992, about Leno and David Letterman's fight for Carson's late night throne. Five years later, I had a longer one-on-one with the man who succeeded Allen in 1957, Jack Paar. The two men seem like total opposites at f...